Our book club in Portland picked a romance novel and it split the group down the middle

Last month, we read 'The Love Hypothesis' for our meeting. Half the group loved the fake dating plot and thought it was fun. The other half called it predictable and said the science setting felt fake. Things got heated when Sarah from our group, a biologist, said the lab scenes were full of mistakes. We spent 45 minutes just arguing if a book needs to be accurate to be good. Now our next pick is up for a vote and no one can agree. Has your club ever had a genre pick cause this much trouble?

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leodavis3d ago

Oh man, that sounds exactly like our club last year. We did a fantasy book and the whole meeting was just people fighting over the magic system rules. What finally worked was making a rule: the person who complains the most about a book has to pick the next one. It made people way more careful about just hating something for not being their thing.

craig.john3d agoTop Commenter

Used to think those kinds of rules were too gimmicky. Your story about the fantasy book fight actually makes a lot of sense, though. Might have to suggest something like that for my own group.

clark.morgan2d ago

Yeah that rule about the biggest complainer picking next is honestly genius. I mean it forces people to actually think before they just trash something.